Hi there, I was wondering whether there are flexible packages available with which you can create user interfaces? (I've read about "gWidgets"!?) For example in Matlab you can even create stand alone applications. Is it also possible for R in the same extend? Of course it should be platform independent if possible... And then I would like to know from people who know R as well as Matlab. What would you see as advantages and disadvantages comparing both systems (from your personal needs). I've learned a little bit of R and I like the concept but I don't know much about Matlab. (I hope this question is not too off topic?) Thank you! Antje
Information about *graphical* user interface efforts for R, assuming that's what you meant, can be found here: http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ -Don At 1:45 PM +0100 2/29/08, Antje wrote:>Hi there, > >I was wondering whether there are flexible packages available with which you >can create user interfaces? (I've read about "gWidgets"!?) >For example in Matlab you can even create stand alone applications. Is it also >possible for R in the same extend? Of course it should be platform independent >if possible... > >And then I would like to know from people who know R as well as Matlab. What >would you see as advantages and disadvantages comparing both systems >(from your >personal needs). I've learned a little bit of R and I like the concept but I >don't know much about Matlab. (I hope this question is not too off topic?) > >Thank you! >Antje > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- -------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA 925-423-1062
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Antje <niederlein-rstat@yahoo.de> wrote:> Hi there, > > I was wondering whether there are flexible packages available with which > you > can create user interfaces? (I've read about "gWidgets"!?)gWidgets provides an easy to use API for developing GUIs in R. It's an abstraction over several actual toolkit bindings (tcl/tk, RGtk2, and rJava/Swing). The best supported implementation is based on RGtk2. Depending on the level of control and features you require, you might have to resort to direct use of RGtk2, which is a complete low-level binding to the GTK+ toolkit.> > For example in Matlab you can even create stand alone applications. Is it > also > possible for R in the same extend? Of course it should be platform > independent > if possible... >tcl/tk, GTK+, and Swing are all cross-platform toolkits used for developing stand-alone applications. Developing your GUI in gWidgets will allow the user to choose among those three. But for a true stand-alone application (without running R directly) you'll probably want to develop the application and its GUI in another language and then delegate to the R library for certain tasks.> > And then I would like to know from people who know R as well as Matlab. > What > would you see as advantages and disadvantages comparing both systems (from > your > personal needs). I've learned a little bit of R and I like the concept but > I > don't know much about Matlab. (I hope this question is not too off topic?) > > Thank you! > Antje > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]